Do not eat a McWhopper! This week on PCP, the guys talk about Guild Wars 2, video game movies, Divinity: Original Sin 2 and the pros and cons of Kickstarter, two big games coming out in 2016, and much more! Read On

The Rekindling is a children’s picture book about a young boy seeking a mythical flame to rekindle the spirit of his people. A Kickstarter for the book is scheduled to begin in 2015, but fans of the book are joining a grass-roots support movement right now.

Yasumi Matsuno – creator of the classic video games Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre and Vagrant Story – has started a Kickstarter page with the company Playdek to fund a new RPG. Called Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians, the game is described as a “spiritual successor in a storied line of epic tactical RPGs designed by Yasumi Matsuno.”

Nerd culture may be the current zeitgeist, but there is still one major pastime of nerds everywhere that’s gotten short shrift – tabletop gaming. Just the phrase conjures images of geeks with huge glasses sitting in a dark basement playing Dungeons & Dragons. This is, of course, inaccurate and unfair. Even less known than tabletop gaming is the potential hobby that accompanies it: painting the miniature heroes and monsters used to play the game. In years past players were required to purchase small predesigned minis – usually metal but occasionally plastic. Now, a new company called Hero Forge has started a Kickstarter campaign to produce custom 3D printed miniatures. You choose your race, gender, build, facial expressions, weapons, armor, equipment and hairstyle and Hero Forge will create that mini especially for you with a 3D printer. For imaginative tabletop fans, the possibilities are endless.

On July 31 independent studio Giant Spacekat launched the Kickstarter for upcoming iPad title Revolution 60.

Described as “Heavy Rain meets Mass Effect,” and “a complex cinematic experience, where story and choice are paramount,” Revolution 60 is an unusual title on the mobile market. This narrative title topped the list of best games at PAX East 2013, features choice-based story mechanics and full voice acting. Players step into the shoes of Holiday, an assassin for the international spy group Chessboard, seeking to prevent an accidental nuclear war when an American orbital weapons platform drifts off-course.

Revolution 60 is extremely close to completion for the mobile market. The Kickstarter was launched to polish the game and take advantage of the Unreal engine’s cross-platform abilities. If successful, the Kickstarter will allow Revolution 60 to be released for PC and Mac with revised interface functions.

Nerdcore legend, animation super star, and all-around-nice-guy MC Chris has been doing everything he can to make his dream of The MC Chris Show a reality. The animated show starring MC Chris himself has been bounced about and beaten down for years now. Some may remember a previous Kickstarter to make a sizzle reel for the show a while back. That short, but awesome piece of animation nearly got the show picked up by Adult Swim, (where Chris has both portrayed several beloved characters and written for some of their very first original shows).

Sadly, Adult Swim kicked Chris and his show out of the pool, leaving the poor nerd icon out in the cold. Now he’s going back to the people who have supported him before in a new Kickstarter to fund finishing the animated short that the first crowd sourced project started.

The internet comedy geniuses at 5secondfilms.com want to go beyond their normal five second format to bring the good people of the intertubes a feature length version of one of their most beloved shorts. Dude Bro Party Massacre 3 is a fan favorite that has already been brought back from the dead as an 88 second trailer. To achieve their goal of a 5,400 second version of the story, the sketch comedy troupe are looking to their fans, their friends’ fans, and the fans of their fans to help Kickstart the project.

In the spirit of other internationally famous sketch teams such as The State, Upright Citizens Bridgade, and Whitest Kids Your Know, Five Second Films has been creating quirky and fun videos since October 2008. Since their beginning, they’ve released a new video every single day to bring hilarious or just plain weird videos to their fans without fail. It’s this kind of dedication to their art and love for their fans that’s earned them the chance to make a movie for the people who’ve been asking for it.

Check out their trailer for Dude Bro Party Massacre 3 and a couple of my favorite videos from 5SF to get a little taste of the good times that this great team of comedic savants bring to the world.

Should there be a restriction made on who can crowd source on Kickstarter?

Join our heroes and heroine this week as we talk about the latest drama with Kickstarter. As Zach Braff receives a bit backlash to his movie Kickstarter. If that wasn’t fun enough we get a bit sidetracked and hit up Buffy for the debate on who’s worse Spike or Angelus?

Be sure to participate, let us know who’s worse Spike or Angelus Or you take on Kickstarter and if there should be any rules on who can or can’t use it.

Join our heroes and heroine as they take a look at the upcoming Veronica Mars movie funded by KickStarter. Will it change everything as we know it? Also we are recording from our newest headquarters aka: Plein Manor.

Developer Double Fine’s ambitious project to fund a new independent adventure game on Kickstarter raised a million dollars in one day.

They had hoped to raise $300,000. That took about eight hours. And there’s still thirty-one days to go.

What sort of project gets this much fan enthusiasm? Well, when the development team headed by Tim Schaefer promises both a classic-style point-and-click adventure game and the chance for Double Fine to produce a game largely free of outside corporate influence, the appeal is clear.